What is a person? Or to put the question more personally, what are you? I don’t mean “what are you physically?” No one is referring to...

Just Not Good Enough We have all had the experience, time after time, of being let down by some large corporation whose services or...

Two months ago, I flew to my native England to deal with the passing of my father. For years, his now-widow had been by his side to help...

“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By...

“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” - Somerset Maugham This quotation...

The first quote in my 240-page commonplace book (see the first blog entry above) is this. If you wish to proceed into the infinite,...

I think I was the only adult American who didn’t know who Michael Jordan is when the documentary, Last Dance came out. I had heard the...